Quotes About Commitment

Ambrose shrugged his spikes moodily. "I don't suppose you'd like me to fetch your lunch, dinner, tea'n'supper too. Huh!" "Oh, and Ambrose, would you ask Winifred to fetch our lunch, dinner, tea and supper out here? This is going to be a long job!

Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE. Parents give up so much: time, sleep, freedom, money, intimacy... pretty much everything but complaining how much they sacrifice.

Every relationship is an education.... There's no graduating from this kind of education, couples just keep growing and changing until they either break up or die.

There's no graduating from this kind of education, couples just keep growing and changing until they either break up or die.

So what? He's good to you and Hazel now, isn't he? Who cares if he's got history with some other broad?

I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do

Some general advice about writing: WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

Face it, you can be a writer or a pacifist. But you can't be both.

Levi, Maria called. Come back. We're not finished yet. He paused What, Maria? You asked me what I believe in? I believed in you. He nodded his head sadly. Yes, you did. And before you met me, you believed in nothing. But that's the thing with belief, Maria. It's easy to believe in something when it doesn't require anything from you. It's much harder, though, when the object of your belief requires something of you or asks for something you don't want to give. That's when real belief occurs.

Anyhow, I believe that there comes a day when you have to burn your bridges just to make sure you can still swim. What if you can't? Then you either learn real fastlike or you drown. And I don't plan on drownin' no time soon.

Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not; average people do what they feel like doing.

Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.

we express a commitment to that which cannot be established by reason, or to that which can be established by reason but not for that reason.12

She loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

I found that every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.